Books
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Travel by the Book
Literature and life guide Peter LaSalle’s latest collection of travel essays, The World is a Book, Indeed.
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Shake Up Your Winter Reading
Winter 2020-21 books from our college community.
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Writing to Beauvoir
In her new book, Sex, Love, and Letters, Judith Coffin reveals the private lives and intimate bond found in Simone de Beauvoir’s letters with her fans.
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Ticket to Read
Fall 2020 books from our college community.
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How Bias Sneaks into Big-Data Policing
Like all human endeavors, technology is at its core still social, argues Sarah Brayne in her new book Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing.
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Want to Learn More About Race in America? Read this.
Authors from UT Austin’s College of Liberal Arts describe their books and what they hope readers will learn.
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Turning the Past into Poetry
H.W. Brands hopes his latest book, Haiku History: The American Saga Three Lines at a Time, won’t be a page turner.
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This Summer is One For the Books
Summer 2020 books from our college community.
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Race By Any Other Name
In her award-winning book, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng argues that race did exist even if the language of the time had yet to capture the phenomenon.
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Books in Bloom
Spring 2020 books from our college community.
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Season’s Readings
Winter 2019-20 books from our college community.
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The Taco Truck: Author Takes His Research to the Streets
Robert Lemon examines the evolution of taco trucks and how it transforms U.S. cities.
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Dreams of El Dorado
The rapid growth of America came as a shock to some, as it was the only country whose expansion occurred with such little government supervision. In Dreams of El Dorado, author H.W. Brands recounts the rich history of the American West. Beginning with the purchase of the Louisiana territory, which propelled future Western expansion of…
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Affording Jane Austen
In The Lost Books of Jane Austen, Janine Barchas explores the burgeoning popularity of Jane Austen’s novels beginning in the nineteenth-century. Through photographs and unique historical perspectives, Barchas shares some of the earliest and cheapest reprints of Austen’s work that brought the author recognition in the working-class, leading to the reputation she has today. Learn…
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Leave No Page Unturned
Fall 2019 books from our college community.
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Drawing Inspiration
Edward Carey’s office is filled with fanciful artwork, including several large drawings of the gloomy-eyed characters who inhabit his books.
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Bring Your Brain to Work
In “Bring Your Brain to Work,” Art Markman shares what you need to know to succeed at work.
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Soak in Our Summer Reads
Summer 2019 titles from our college community.
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Books: Spring 2019
Spring 2019 titles from our college community.
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Books: Winter 2018-19
Winter 2018-19 titles from our college community.
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Books: Fall 2018
Fall 2018 titles from our college community.
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What’s in Your Library?
Over a period of five years (2013-18) a Faculty Committee on Influential Books discussed, debated and finally compiled a list of intellectually and culturally significant books to encourage reading by undergraduates and provide inspiration for continued reading by college alumni. The committee benefited from student suggestions and criticism in drawing up the list that mainly…
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A Shoemaker’s Dilemma: Q&A with English Alum and Author Spencer Wise
Set in contemporary South China, The Emperor of Shoes is about a young Jewish Bostonian preparing to take over his family’s shoe business. But he ends up falling in love with a factory worker who may or may not be using him as a pawn to start a pro-democratic revolution in the factory. For author…
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Living in a Material World: Philosopher Galen Strawson tackles a few of life’s nagging questions
Writer and actor Stephen Fry says Galen Strawson “opens windows and finds light-switches like no other philosopher writing today,” and novelist Ian McEwan simply dubs Strawson “one of the cleverest men alive.” High praise for this UT professor of philosophy, who discusses his latest book, Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, The Self, Etc. with Life…
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Books: Spring & Summer 2018
Spring and Summer 2018 titles from our college community.
